> [1] http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/2009/07/14/control-center-refresh/ wow I can't believe I missed this, and didn't read the accompanying wiki page http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/Whiteboard/ControlCenter I'm such a bad citizen at times :( Thanks for pointing to this work, seems Sun have put quite an effort behind testing, generating prototypes and alike. It's nice to see someone's doing this, hiding away in the wiki is bad though :( I think we could really benefit from a ux.gnome.org site for demonstrating new ideas and creating concrete mockups and cataloging testing data from various organisations who are performing usability testing or have in the past. We could even possibly get people grazing through and helping out, especially people like the gnome-look community which is thriving and still producing content on their brainstorm pages... http://gnome-look.org/index.php?xcontentmode=185 Handing all of this untamed talent, mentoring and directing them within a structured framework could help build a thriving user experience community. Imagine for a moment the litestep and afterstep desktops, people configured them to crazy extents making whole new user experiences within nothing but a few hours of dedicated concentration of how they want things to be. Now take a look at GNOME shell, we've basically got something 1,000,000 times more powerful than litestep for hackability, this is next to a community of willing and dedicated people... The thing that gets me is, they don't currently seem to be connected. Personally I think that ux.gnome.org is the way to go. If we can create a framework for distilling the good ideas down from multiple sources, then I believe our user experience will become second to none. Any thoughts, flames, rants? BR, K
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